We introduce a curriculum learning approach to adapt generic neural machine translation models to a specific domain. Samples are grouped by their similarities to the domain of interest and each group is fed to the training algorithm with a particular schedule. This approach is simple to implement on top of any neural framework or architecture, and consistently outperforms both unadapted and adapted baselines in experiments with two distinct domains and two language pairs.
@article{arxiv.1905.05816,
title = {Curriculum Learning for Domain Adaptation in Neural Machine Translation},
author = {Xuan Zhang and Pamela Shapiro and Gaurav Kumar and Paul McNamee and Marine Carpuat and Kevin Duh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.05816},
year = {2019}
}